Batman Forever

Batman Forever, often simplified to "the Batman demo", is an Amstrad CPC6128 demo released in 2011 at the Forever demoparty by the Batman Group, a former Amiga demoscene group.

This award-winning demo redefined the Amstrad CPC demoscene. Since its release in 2011, the Amstrad CPC demoscene is still awaiting for a "Batman killer". Many tried, few were close... yet Batman remains undefeated.

Some demoscene aficionados would even comment that this is the best Atari ST demo ever... oh wait?!

It requires a disk drive and 128kb RAM.

It was released at Forever 2011 demoparty and somewhat helped the Amstrad CPC to (re-)gain some publicity in the global old-school demoscene since.

Credits

Batman Group and friends.

Rhino : Code and Graphics
Factor6 : Music
Yzi : Music
Mac : Graphics
Paulbrk : Graphics
DadMan : Graphics
Eldrik : Graphics
Arnoldemu : Code (Loader system)

Awards and Nominations

Forever 2011:

CPC demo : 1st Place

Scene.org Awards 2011 :

best graphics : 3rd place
breakthrough performance : 3rd place
public choice : winner
best demo on an oldschool platform : Winner
best technical achievement : Winner

Gallery

Mode R

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Mode R usage in the demo

This demo uses Mode R, a software video mode designed by Rhino using Mode 0. Via horizontal interlacing, it can theoretically simulate up to 240 colors on screen at once.

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